NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities. They needed cash.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Most recipients with significant barriers to employment—including disability, lack of education, or lack of available jobs—don’t find employment due to work requirements.

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Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 133

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

She went to Uganda where she lived and worked with an NGO on strategic planning and board governance. A Life-Changing Learning Experience The Certificate in Nonprofit Management at the University of Tampa immerses current and aspiring nonprofit leaders in an 18-month educational experience that many graduates describe as life-changing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Theyre also vital for preventionby providing detailed, real-time information to their users, CGMs serve as educational tools for patients about managing and mitigating their disease in the long-term. For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable.

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Management Healthcare Health Medical 95

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. RP: A big one for this moment is how to relate to government and state power.

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Governance Education Education Values 70

Candid

OCTOBER 2, 2024

These are vital elements of a well-functioning society which can only be ensured by a government that serves the people. But funders can play a key role in raising our collective expectations of government. Philanthropy doesn’t have the infrastructure or resources to guarantee a high quality of life for all.

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Governance Poverty Philanthropy Foundations 116

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Between the ages of 18 and 30, that person can access the money and use it for education or job training, to purchase a home or start a business in Connecticut, or to save for retirement. Even as we worked inside the halls of government to secure fundingit was vital to also build a broad coalition. Changing state policy is challenging.

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Poverty Public and Social Policy Children Governance 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S.

Leadership 122

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 122

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Because we choose not to be under the government’s thumb by acquiescing to the 501(c)(3) status game, we are generally not permitted to apply for grant funding. We would love to qualify for funding for education, agriculture, electricity, fresh water, and jobs creation. Help us help the world.

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Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 55

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Even the federal government [was] pushing what they called self-help co-ops. It makes sense.

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Food Activism Poverty Leadership 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As the United Nations highlights, eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and an absolute requirement for sustainable development. To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. A Tyranny of Tradeoffs.

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Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 If previous efforts to make employee ownership a priority of state government funding were stymied, what could be done?

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Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 141

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. What would it take to fully fund the human capital, governance, and advocacy costs of nonprofits? Obviously, the only entity with the assets and power structure to move this needle is the national government.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 132

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t want to talk about poverty. Across the world, the safest communities are not those that are the most policed but rather are those with the best resources—those that meet their residents where they are and strengthen trust between community and government,” his campaign website reads.

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Poverty Health Education Education 139

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 Arnett et al.,

Race and Ethnicity 70

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 70

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Communities and Economies In looking beyond borders, there is much to learn from Indigenous Peoples—populations with extensive diversity across cultures, languages, and systems of governance. In addition to differences in governance and leadership principles, the economies of Indigenous societies were distinct from those of Europeans.

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Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The federal government recommends at least one educator per three to four infants for safe, quality care. The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation announced it will provide paid training to over 60 early childhood educators in their Early Educator Fast Track Initiative. Babies need constant supervision and attention.

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Insurance Children Poverty Education 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

’s governance can be attributed to combining impatience about injustice with patience about strategy—and all the while keeping a relentless focus on securing voice and power for marginalized communities. These challenges are reflected in what’s meant by use of the terms governing power and co-governance.

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Public and Social Policy Governance Non-Profits Foundations 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

RB: The last installment of the report uplifts how mass incarceration exacerbates poverty. I don’t want them to be able to have access to a level of education that, if I’m not incarcerated, it’s hard for me to get. Issues of poverty and racial bias in the South are super salient and continue to be a problem.”

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Education 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Finance Recruitment Poverty 144

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Korea presents a unique setting in which governments play an important role in realizing social impact. ARTICLE | Ending Period Shame and Poverty in Asia by Noriko Akiyama, Fan Li & Wenquian Xu. ARTICLE | What ‘Cash Plus” Programs Teach Us About Fighting Extreme Poverty by Imran Matin. SSIR En Español.

Poverty 105

Poverty Universities Health Technology 105

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

Fifty percent of its residents were born outside of the US and identify as Latino/a ; about half of all families in the neighborhood live below the official poverty line. We also need our government agencies to protect us. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

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Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 128

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. The program includes classroom training in business development, finance, governance, democratic decision-making, and participatory management.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. MEGA’s efforts have expanded to include youth leadership and mentorship, community engagement, and health education.

Food 126

Food Agriculture Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 126

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Between 2016 and 2019 , nearly half of global giving by US foundations went to health, while environment and human rights accounted for roughly 11 percent each, followed by agriculture and education. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way.

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Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 116

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The poverty rate is 52.4 In the 20th century, Atlanta emerged as a hub of Black entrepreneurship and education. Agbo also insists that the investment be not in traditional structures and institutions but in the governance and ownership by the communities working to build wealth.

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Culture Poverty Governance Finance 122

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Our work has recently become even more critical, supporting community strength and solutions through the challenges of poverty, pandemic, and vandalism. In this community, poverty remains a challenge: 16.4 percent of families live below the poverty line, a poverty rate more than six percentage points higher than Seattle.

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Community Development Poverty Retail Insurance 131

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 9, 2023

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. Using existing grantmaking to establish tiered-evidence grant programs is one way to do this.

Finance 111

Finance Production Governance Poverty 111

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, during the Great Depression and the decades that followed, in a process called redlining, the government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board systematically denied loans to Black and Brown folks, excluding them from home ownership. million school-aged children every day.

Food 132

Food Agriculture Environmental Governance 132

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The federal government has also committed $1 billion to fund solar rooftop energy, with an initial allocation of $450 million announced last July. million households and, according to the US Census Bureau , a poverty rate of 41.7 In one category, which concerned consumer education and protection, there was no match requirement at all.

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